Casablanca Conference

The Casablanca Conference was held from 14 to 24 January 1943, when President of the United States Franklin D. Roosevelt, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom Winston Churchill, and Free French leaders Charles de Gaulle and Henri Giraud convened at Casablanca, Morocco to agree on further strategies in the common conduct of World War II. They decided on an increase of US bombing of Germany; plans were agreed for the forthcoming invasion of Sicily (Operation Husky) and for the transfer of British forces to East Asia on the defeat of Nazi Germany; and the Allied Powers agreed that Germany had to surrender unconditionally. The international conference was De Gaulle's first, signalling his international acceptance as leader of the anti-Vichy forces.